Line setting and casting machine.



H. DEGBNER.

LINE SETTING AND CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.22, 1910.

1,066,086. Patented July 1, 1913.

UNITED gTATES PATENT @FFICE.

HEINRICH DEGENER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGEN'IHALER LIND- TYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LINE SETTING AND CASTING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1, 1913.

Application filed August 22, 1910. Serial No. 578,459.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH DEGENER, a resident of 26 Hollmannstrasse, Berlin, German Empire, manager, having invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Line Setting and Casting Machines, do hereby declare that the following is an exact specification of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in line setting and casting machines of the known Mergenthaler system, and has particular reference to the collector mechanism.

The accompanying drawings show by way of example constructions according to this invention, namely Figures 1-3 show the collector mechanism, Fig. 1 being the first construction in front elevation, Fig. 2 a cross-section through the conduit for the transfer of the matrices from the collector carriage to the casting carriage, and Fig. 3 the second construction in front elevation.

The collector carriage 1 is provided with two stops or ledges 2 3 which, unlike former constructions, are stationary and preferably are made in one piece with the collector. The setting of the matrices X is effected in the known manner, but the matrices are all collected on the upper fixed ledge 2, so that after the line is finished, it stands on the above-mentioned upper ledge or stop. If the whole line is to be set in italics, the collector is raised in the known manner, and the line despatched. If, onthe contrary, the whole line is to be set in ordinary type, the collector is not raised so high, and is lower to the extent of the distance between the two characters on the matrices, since the matrices but if the lever 5 is in the position shown in full lines, the P1114. strikes the releasing device earlier, and consequently limits the upward movement of the collector carriage and-releases the device for the further conveyance of the matrices at a correspondingly earlier moment. When the collector carriage is raised into relation to the organ to which the assembled line is transferred, it is temporarily held' in such position by the engagement of the hook 7 with the machine frame. This hook is constructed and operates in the manner shown in numerous patents, such for instance as that to A. D. Pentz, No. 545,530, September 3, 1895. In view of the fact that the collector carriage is brought into operative relation to the said organ in a plurality of positions, the hook 7 is herein shown as formed with a correponding plurality of engaging teeth. The collector carriage has or may have the usual construction and mode of operation, it being adapted to be raised from the assembling to the transfer position by any desired means, such for instance as those disclosed in the patent to O. Mergenthaler, No. 436,532, September 16, 1890. If mixed type is to be set, the front folding bracket 8 pivoted at 88 to the collector carriage is folded forward, after the line has been collected in the above described manner on the upper ledge 2, and those matrices which are to be set in ordinary type, are brought in the known manner, by turning over, into their bottom position, so that they stand within their lugs on the bottom ledge 3, whereupon the carriage is raised, and at the same time the lever 5 must be set for italics; In that case the matrices are transferred in the desired manner at two different levels from the collector carriage to the casting carriage. It is further necessary to have a device in order to transfer the spacers Y into the casting carriage always at the same level, whether the collector carriage is in its upper or lower position. To that end, the conduit 85 through which the spacers are transferred from the collector carriage to the casting carriage, is widened in front, namely in such manner that when the collect-or carriage is raised only into its bottom position, the bottom edges of the spacer lugs come into engagement with the oblique bottom conduit surface, and the spacers are raised during the further transport, while the matrices retain their position. When setting in italics, the spacers travel in the ordinary manner in the horizontal direction.

If it is desired to avoid the Wear of the spacer lugs or of the intermediate conduit, due to the cooperation or contact of the said parts, the arrangement may be made as shown in Fig. 3. In this arrangement, the distance between the upper edge of the catching ledge 2 from the upper edge of the bracket 8 on which, as is known, the spacers with their lugs stand, is increased to the eX- tent of the distance between the two kinds of characters, consequently, after the setting of the line, the position of the spacers relatively to the position of the matrices is such as is to be occupied by the matrices in the casting carriage when ordinary type alone is being set. In setting ordinary type, therefore, no movement of the spacers relatively to the matrices in the transfer conduit from the collector carriage to the casting carriage is required. If, however, italics or mixed matter are to be set, the spacers will be too high relatively to the matrices, and it will be necessary to bring them down. To that end, as shown in Fig. 3, the conduit for the transfer of the spacers is tapered in the opposite direction, that is to say, its bottom surface is horizontal, while the upper surface is rising. In that way, a relative movement between the spacers and the matrices is insured only in the case. of lines with italics which occur comparatively rarely. The same result as described can be of course obtained also by raising the collector always to the same level, and modifying instead the position of the intermediate conduit or of the casting carriage. The device can be used in a corresponding manner also for collecting more than two kinds of type.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:

1. In a typographical machine, in combination with multiple face matrices, the col lector carriage provided with means for supporting the matrices at different levels and also means to trip one of the machine devices, the said tripping means being adjustable to permit the movement of the collector carriage to difierent extents.

2. In a typographical machine, in combination with multiple face matrices, the collector carriage provided with means for supportingthe matrices at different levels and also means to arrest the collector carriage in different positions, said arresting means serving also to trip one of the machine devices.

3. In a typographical machine, in combi nation with multiple face matrices, the collector carriage provided with means for supporting the matrices at different levels and also means carried thereby to arrest the collector carriage in different positions.

4. In a typographical machine, the combination with a collector carriage, an adjacent organ to which the assembled line is trans ferred, and means whereby the said carriage is brought into operative position with relation to the said organ at different levels, the said carriage being formed with spacer supporting means at one level and the said organ being formed with spacer supporting means adapted to receive the spacers from the said carriage in any of the said operative positions. I

5. In a typographical machine, the combination with a collector carriage, an adjacent organ to which the assembled line is transferred, and means whereby the said carriage is brought into operative position with relation to the said organ at different levels, the said carriage being formed With spacer supporting means at one level, and the said organ being formed with a spacer supporting groove having a flared end adapted to receive the spacers from the said carriage in any of the said operative positions.

6. In a typographical machine comprisingmultiple face matrices, the collector carriage to receive the matrices and provided with means to trip one of the machine devices, the said tripping means being adjustable to permit the movement of the collector carriage to different extents.

7. In a typographical machine comprising multiple face matrices, the collector carriage to receive the matrices and provided with means to arrest the collector carriage in different positions, the said arresting means serving also to trip one of the machine devices.

8. In a typographical machine comprising multiple-face matrices, t-hecollector carriage to receive the matrices and having means carried thereby to arrest the collector carriage in difi'erent positions.

9. In a typographical machine comprising multiple face matrices, the combination of the collector carriage to receive the matrices, and means for controlling the extent of movement of the collector carriage and for tripping one of the machine devices, irrespective of the extent of movement of. the collector carriage.

10. In a typographical machine compris- In Witness whereof I hereunder set my iigmultiphe face matrices, the combination hand in the presence of two Witnesses. 0 tie co ector carria e to receive the T matrices and arranged to be moved to difi'er HEIL RICH DEGENER' ent extents, and means to trip one of the Witnesses: machine devices, irrespective of the extent HENRY HAsPER, of movement of the collector carriage. VVOLDEMAR HAUPT.

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